jQuery/JavaScript “this” pointer confusion

Question

The behavior of \"this\" when function bar is called is baffling me. See the code below. Is there any way to arrange for \"this\" to be a plain old js object in

Answer 1

this.bar();  // when called here, "this" is the foo instance

this comment is wrong when foo is used as a normal function, not as a constructor. here:

foo();//this stands for window